GIs Mass Killings & U.S. Germ Warfare in Korea: Joint White Paper

GIs’ Mass Killings & U.S. Germ Warfare in Korea: Joint White Paper

Photo shows soldiers of the Korean People's Army waging anti-germ warfare struggles faced with the U.S. forces' biological attacks during the 1950-53 Korean War.

The Nationwide Special Committee for Probing the Truth Behind GIs’ Mass Killings released recently a joint white paper in two installments on U.S. atrocities committed against the Korean people during the 1950-1953 Korean War. The first installment (dated April 2, 2002) dealt with GIs’ mass killings of civilians and the second (dated May 25) the U.S. germ warfare and use of chemical weapons. The Committee came into being as a pan-Korean organization (called the Korea Truth Commission in the South) in the wake of Associated Press reports of September 1999 revealing the massacre of 400 innocent non-combatants in Rogun-ri, South Korea. Follows a gist of the two-part joint white paper:

1. On GIs’ Mass Killings

Nearly one million South Koreans were killed by bestial GIs in the first 12 months of the war from the summer of 1950 to the summer of 1951, even according to the results of preliminary investigation and confirmation.

On July 16, U.S. bombers committed a saturation bombing of Seoul, killing 1,096 civilians, leaving 1,201 heavily or lightly wounded and rendering more than 7,000 homeless.

Upon landing in Inchon on September 16, 1950, GIs murdered at least 1,300 innocent civilians on the same day alone.

They detained and killed over 55,900 inhabitants from September 28 to November 13 after branding them as “communist elements.”

U.S. imperialist aggressors raped 875 women in Seoul alone from September to December 1950, killing them in cold blood. Many buildings of cultural and other establishments in South Chungchong Province were severely destroyed by barbaric U.S. air raids till August 25 from the day of its liberation by the People’s Army. Among them were seven hospitals in Asan County, two hospitals, 13 schools and three cultural facilities in Thaedok County, six hospitals, 16 schools and buildings of 15 institutions in Yongi County, four hospitals and one school in Chonan County, four hospitals and buildings of six institutions in Poryong County and 14 hospitals in Ronsan County.

In Seoul the U.S. imperialist aggressors totally destroyed or burnt 76 schools, destroyed inner facilities in 79 schools and 38 hospitals and medical facilities and burnt two broadcasting stations, six theaters, one museum and four newspaper offices.

All facts clearly prove that the crimes against humanity committed by them in the southern half of Korea were the intentional and premeditated murder, plunder and destruction perpetrated to exterminate the Korean nation.

2. On U.S. Germ Warfare and Use of Chemical Weapons in Korea

In the autumn of 1950, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff formally examined and approved the long prepared plan to massively use germ weapons in actual battles and escalated the germ warfare at an experimental stage to the stage of its full-scale operation.

According to the germ warfare scenario, the U.S. troops carried out the first germ bomb dropping operation against the northwestern part of Korea (the region north of the River Chongchon to that south of the River Amnok) and Yangdok, Hamhung and Wonsan in November 1951 and towards 1952 this operation escalated from a limited warfare to an all-out one.

In the period from early January to March 1952 U.S. warplanes dropped different kinds of things containing poisonous insects and germs on 169 areas of the north on a total of 804 occasions.

Involved in this criminal germ warfare were not only bombers based in Okinawa but a quarter of the bombers which flew to make air raids on areas of the DPRK from their bases in South Korea. The number of the bombers making sorties to drop germ bombs reached as many as 480 in a single day.

GIs used over 20 types of germ weapons including pest, cholera, smallpox and epidemic bleeding fever and more than 34 species of insects and animals infected with germs including flies (5 species), mosquitoes (3 species), fleas, bugs and mice.

They massively used chemical weapons in 24 cities, counties and front areas in the north including Jangwon, South and North Hwanghae and South Phyongan provinces from February 1951 to July 1953.

The U.S. air pirates used poison-gas bombs 33 times from February 27 to April 9, 1952 and U.S. army units fired suffocative and lachrymatory gas shells at defense positions of the Korean People’s Army 41 times in the about same period.

The weapons of mass destruction used by the U.S. troops during the Korean War included more than 15 million napalm bombs.

The biological and chemical warfare committed by the U.S. forces during the Korean War was a deliberate and premeditated criminal act to exterminate the Korean nation and severely destroy the land of Korea.

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